flamants
\fla.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“flamants” is uncommon French (frequency #59,294 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,294
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de flamant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flamants · flamants · French
flamants · rank #59,294 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,294
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flamingo
Nearest frequency peer: flamingo (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « flamants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Fiennes
Fiennes
40,712 corpus weight
- firefly
firefly
40,710 corpus weight
- flaire
flaire
40,709 corpus weight
- flamants
flamants
40,707 corpus weight
- flamingo
flamingo
40,706 corpus weight
- Flavio
Flavio
40,705 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flamants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flamants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fla.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flamants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flamants is uncommon French at frequency #59,294 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fla.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de flamant.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for flamants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is flamants, spelled F-L-A-M-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de flamant.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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